FALLEN SAILOR: In his 14 years of service with the U.S. Coast Guard, some of it in South Carolina, Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III was credited with saving dozens of lives during 63 rescue missions. Earlier this year, he and his crew intercepted two smuggling boats carrying almost 2,000 pounds of marijuana northwest of Catalina Island.

Branquinho takes down a steer in 5.4 seconds. Though not his best personal time, he placed fourth in the Fiesta competition and has climbed back into the national top 15 steer-wrestling cowboys in time for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.

Branquinho sits in the background on a barrel, watching other rodeo cowboys practice their steer-wrestling skills at his family’s ranch near Los Alamos. Branquinho doesn’t think of these competitors as working against one another: “It is us against the steer we are wrestling. We are all in it together.”